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Hackers Shut Down Africa Cup of Nations Website

A group of hackers claim to have shut down the website of the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in protest at...

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Rescuers Listen For Signs of Life In Avalanche-Struck Hotel

Rescuers listened for signs Saturday of any more survivors, three days after an avalanche slammed into a resort hotel...

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Russia’s Putin Ready To Meet Trump, Preparations May Take Months

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet U. S. President Donald Trump but preparations for the possible...

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Google Placed Its Own Ads First, Study Claims

Adverts for Google products occupied 91% of the top ad slots on the firm’s search results pages, in a study done for...

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South Korea’s Culture Minister Arrested Over Arts Blacklist In Political Scandal

South Korean prosecutors arrested the culture minister on Saturday, on suspicion of abuse of power for drawing up a...

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Trump, In Oval Office, Signs First Order On Obamacare

President Donald Trump directed government agencies on Friday to freeze regulations and take steps to weaken Obamacare,...

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Trump Sworn In, Marking A Transformative Shift In the Country’s Leadership

Donald John Trump was sworn in Friday as the 45th president of the United States, taking office on a day that has...

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Jammeh Misses Second Deadline To Step Down

A deadline for defeated President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed forces at...

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One Shot, Three Missing In Robbery Attack In Bole

Gunmen believed to be armed robbers attacked and injured illegal mining operators at Gbulimpe in the Bole -Bamboi...

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Jammeh To Sue Barrow For Staging A Coup

Outgoing president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has emerged with a new list of cabinet appointees and warned newly...

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AngloGold Plans More Than 800 Job Cuts In South Africa

AngloGold Ashanti is in talks with unions to lay off nearly 900 workers at its South African operations, a document...

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Executive Actions Ready To Go As Trump Prepares To Take Office

Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening...

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Botswana Ceases To Recognize Jammeh As President of Gambia

The Government of Botswana has officially cut ties with Yahya Jammeh, as it says it ceases to recognize him as...

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26,000 Tourists Flee Gambia Over Political Crisis

Thousands of tourists have left Gambia, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Jammeh’s...

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China Says Can Resolve Trade Disputes With New U.S. Government

China and the United States can resolve any trade disputes through talks, the government said on Thursday, as a Chinese...

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26,000 Tourists Flee Gambia Over Political Crisis

Thousands of tourists have left Gambia, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Jammeh’s...

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Fighting Ecowas Troops Will Be ‘stupid’

Gambia’s army chief said he would not order his men to fight other African troops Gambia’s army chief said...

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Barrow To Be Inaugurated In Senegal

Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow will be sworn into office at the Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal. Barrow...

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Barrow To Be Inagurated In Senegal

Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow will be sworn into office at the Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal. Barrow...